Faruk Shehich

Faruk Shehich was born in 1970 in Bihach, in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Until the outbreak of war in 1992, he studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old joined the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men.

After the war he studied literature and has gone on to create his own literary works.

His second book Hit depot (2003) was the absolutely literary bestseller in Bosnia despite that was a poetry book.

In this book he made a sketches of a several main topic of his later works such as postwar life on the edge of society. His poems are about local (and global) feeling of capitalistic way of life mixed with desperate postwar life in ruins, remains of dead society in Sarajevo and Bosnia.